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Seagate on Wednesday started shipping the highest capacity external hard drive in the world. The company’s FreeAgent GoFlex Desk family now boasts a 4TB drive, which is a first for the industry. Even though this particular capacity might be a first, but the company is no stranger to having the distinction of selling the world’s highest capacity hard drive. It had raised the HDD capacity bar last September as well when it became the first company to begin shipping a 3TB drive. Hit the jump for details.
Available now from Seagate.com for $249, the 4TB GoFlex Desk drive has enough space to accommodate 2,000 HD movies. It’s compatible with both Windows and Mac OSX. While USB 3.0 support is built into the drive, it can also be made to support Firewire 800 connectivity using an adapter that is available separately for around $30.
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wcj786
October 14, 2011 at 2:37am
"Available now from Seagate.com for $249, the 4TB GoFlex Desk drive has enough space to accommodate 2,000 HD movies."
Can you explain to me how 4TB can handle 2,000 HD movies? Being generous and saying that a 1080P movie could fit in 4GB, you still only get 1,000 movies. There are no compression algorithms that would allow a 1080P movie (between 1 1/2 to 2 hours) to fit within 2GB, unless there was data loss. If there is data loss, then it is no longer an HD movie.
So, advertising that this would allow 2,000 movies is not only incorrect, but a violation of consumer protection laws regarding advertising.
